No more hiding away in oversized baggy clothes
KATIE WALTER, 27, who works for a mobile phone network, lost 1st 6lb, reduced her risk of prediabetes and improved her self-confidence after joining WW. Katie, who lives in Thatcham, Berkshire, with her boyfriend Ben Wickens, 30, who works for an energy company, went from 12st 4lb to 10st 12lb, dropping from a dress size 16 to a size 12. She is 5ft 1in. She says:
MY WAKE-UP call was a weekend in Vienna with some girlfriends. We had a lovely time but the trip was ruined when I saw the photos afterwards. I hated how I looked — my face was so round you could hardly see my eyes and I was hiding in baggy, oversized coats, hoping no one would see me.
I lacked any self-confidence, was often argumentative and just felt sad a lot of the time.
I’d always been the chubby one in class and had yo-yo dieted most of my adult life — I’d lost weight but then I’d give up and put it all
back on again, and more. But this time I was determined and desperate to change.
Around the same time, I’d had a health check at a gym and they flagged up that I carry a lot of weight around my tummy — my waist size then was 40in.
This kind of fat is linked to developing type 2 diabetes, which runs in my family, so that was an alarm bell for me. But most of all I was sick of feeling miserable.
I joined WW in December 2019. I was immediately struck by the way WW helps you to form new habits and strike a balance in life.
I love eating out with friends and with Ben and with the WW plan I can still do that by planning all my meals so I stay within my Points Budget. The app was a brilliant help because it gives Points values for a range of different restaurant meals, so nothing was left to guesswork.
The weight dropped off — I’d lost at least a stone within six months.
I really took to the new PersonalPoints programme. Ben is a keen runner and likes to eat carbs, so I’ve chosen potatoes and pasta as my ZeroPoint foods, which means we can easily enjoy the same meals in the evening.
The programme oalso so reinforces healthy habits its such as drinking ng enough water. r.
Being properly p - hydrated ed has really lly improved my skin — clearing up the few w hormonal blemishes that I had d before — and makes me feel l more alert.
I’d like to lose another stone in n the future, but I am happy with h what I’ve achieved so far and I love the recipes.